You freeze, slowly turning your head to meet sky blue eyes and a smile. "Boss said the best friend would figure it out first. What a pain too. I was really enjoying you." He breathes softly.

            "You…" You move to get away but something comes out of the ground beneath you two and a titanium door slams shut above you. "Shit." 

             "___!" Iwaizumi rushes toward you and you look over as the mallet guy comes out of the shrine, smacking him back and sending him tumbling. The mallet guy snickers, walking over and raising his mallet as Iwaizumi coughs and tries to get up.

           "Stop!" You shout, making them pause and look at you. "Another move and I'll send you to the infinite." You warn. He huffs, waving an arm dismissively before looking down at Iwaizumi again, raising up the mallet again. 

           "Do it." Not-Oikawa breathes as you raise your arm. 

           "Burst." You whisper, the man bursts into a red cloud, mallet falling to the ground in front of Iwaizumi. The other blinks at the mallet in shock, trying to get up again but a dart lodges into his arm, making him stop and fall back over. You press against the bars worriedly, opening your mouth to call out to him.

          "Shit… Cover it up!" The woman orders as a titanium mitt is slipped over your right hand and locked in place by a lizard looking guy. You growl, retracting your hand and falling back as the cage is picked up. The imposter catches you in his arms and you give him a glare, moving away quickly.

          "Ah… You're mad…" He smiles as a cover comes over the cage, leaving you nearly in darkness. Iwaizumi should be alright now… Right? Losing the big guy should've been more than enough warning. You blink a few times, relaxing before registering what the imposter had just said.

          "Of course I am. Who the hell are you and where is Oikawa?" You growl uneasily, trying to free your hand.

          "I'm Rakurai. And I work for Midnight. I'm not sure about my doppelganger, but I'm sure he's safe. They didn't take his memories at least." He hums with a carefree smile. You relax a bit at that, still frowning at him. 

          "I kissed a stranger…" You cover your face.

          "Yeah you did. A few times actually. Not that I minded." He chuckles. You give him a surprised look at that. "You probably felt a jolt or spark from my lips. I have electricity running along my veins." He taps his lips. "Usually girls that kiss me turn to mush because of it." He chuckles.

           "... You.. Back at the shop." You recall.

           "Actually. Before that, you liked my cologne and I liked how the stars looked in your eyes." He chuckles. "You know. This isn't the first time I've played as him. Before I dropped out, so many girls would approach me, confusing me for him. They knew random things about him, and I was able to act just like him after a while. They were all so easy…" His tone becomes a bit more rugged. 

           "You enjoy that? Pretending to be someone you're not." You raise an eyebrow, eyes narrowing.

          "Mhm. Like killing it's very easy." He tilts his head. "You understand the killing part at least. I saw what you did back at the mountains, you're really amazing. And Midnight is really amazing for being able to keep you alive back then."

          "Yeah… Midnight is pretty amazing… Tell me who he is." You hum.

          "Now now, don't try that. I have a deep respect and fear of him." He points at you. 

          "Fine… Why be a villain?" You question.

          "Because it's easy. Killing, stealing… For me it's all easy. And when I get bored I can pick up lovers because I have such a nice face." He snickers. "It's fun… Why didn't you take that route? You're so powerful, and with Midnight you could be unstoppable. Who needs those useless dormmates of yours? Join the winning team."

           "Call my dormmates useless again and I'll stomp your face in." You glare.

           "Oops. Didn't mean to say that out loud. It's really a bad habit." Rakurai touches his mouth sheepishly.

            "I should've known something was off when you said Samu's food wasn't good." You huff.

            "It wasn't. And neither was yours." He states. "Not that you're a bad cook or anything. I just enjoy the taste of electricity." He assures. "I'm kinda addicted to it really. So everything else tastes bad." 

            "You have a lot of issues don't you?" You deadpan.

            "... Yeah…" He bows his head. "I'm kinda bummed about this. I really wanted to put more moves on you. But nooo, we had to bring Iwa-chan along." He grumbles. "But you know. I did enjoy you ignoring me. That whole cold shoulder thing was kinda hot."

           "Alright, I'm done listening to you ramble, shut up." You tell him before focusing on anything else.

           "You're going to ignore me again?" He pouts. "I may not be Oikawa, but didn't you feel we had a connection? Especially back on the roof." He shifts closer to you with a smile. 

           "You're a monsterous actor." You comment. 

            "I told you, I just know how your beloved Oikawa thinks. And starry lines are just so easy to work with. Gotta admit, I'm quite proud of myself for that one." He puts a knuckle to his chin. "It sure won you over at least." 

           "Wait… How did you know about Tendo?" You ask.

           "We've been watching you guys really closely. How else do you think I was able to enter the dorm, grab a jacket from that guy's room and come to the roof to talk to you without a problem? Without the foxes noticing." He leans forward. Your heart sinks uneasily at that. "With so many from Dorm One gone camping, it was easy to tour the place. Your room is really nice by the way, the twins are so lucky." 

          "What game are you bastards playing?" You snarl.

          "The one where we wait for the best time to convince you to join us." He smiles. 

          "Not happening." You frown heavily. 

          "Hey. Tell me more about your Tendo friend. You too are really close right?" He moves closer, sky blue eyes glittering with curiosity. You glare at him. Damn him for having Oikawa's face. "And best friends have all kinds of promises to keep…" You pause as he leans forward, tilting his head. "Is there a really important promise between you two?" 

            Your eyes become cold at that, and he pauses. "That's nothing for some stranger to be concerned with. Now how about you back off. Lean any further and I'll bite off your nose." Your lip curls.

           "Heh… You sure are pulling some interesting faces with me now… Scary…" He sits back and pauses. "Ah. Speaking of… What happened earlier? I thought you were about to kill all of them but you stopped, looking really lost." 

          "Of course I stopped. I'm not some villain." You scoff looking away.

          "But didn't you just kill that guy with the mallet?" He tilts his head.

          "I warned him what would happen if he tried to hurt Iwaizumi again." You murmur, gripping the titanium mitt. 

          "Why not just admit it? You're a monster." He chuckles. "You can surround yourself with sheep all you want. But one day that hunger's going to take over and then you'll find yourself standing amongst a dead flock." He breathes lowly. You stare at him for a few moments before whacking him upside the head with the mitt, knocking him out. 

          "I liked you better when you were pretending." You breathe, sitting back. 

          Claw had you again, and this time you couldn't really escape or fight back. You pause and look at your tracker bracelet. You could send out an sos. You raise it to your lips to press the button but stop yourself. This would just keep happening though. Everyone keeps being threatened and hurt, and you were at the center of most of it. Then again, if Claw gets your quirk, that would be a bigger problem for everyone.

          You rest your head back against the bars. 'I would rather die… Everyone would be happier without me. They'll be fine.' The thoughts start to gather around your mind. 'I'm just a nuisance. Weighing everyone down. I should disappear. I'll just hurt them in the end. They'll all be happier. Like mama.' Tears start to glow from your eyes. 'The love was never real anyway. They'll realize that soon enough, and I'll be alone anyway. So let's just die already.'

 *×*×*×*×*

         "Welcome Midnight to Claw Base X." They're greeted into the facility. "We were surprised when you contacted us. Is the subject in there?" The woman peeks into the metal locker. Death pulled behind him.

          "Yes, the valuable quirk that I promised." Midnight rumbles. "Is there a room where we can store him? I want a tour before the extraction." 

          "Of course, right this way." The woman chimes, leading them to a room. Death moves the locker inside as Midnight makes small talk with the woman. Death glances back briefly, slipping a key inside it.

          "Don't die kiddo." He breathes before walking back to join Midnight, following along as the woman takes the lead. He peers at Midnight as the villain gives him a few signals.

          'We have twenty minutes before Oikawa makes a move.' Was basically what Midnight was silently telling him. Death gives a small nod before looking ahead again. He was worried though, Rakurai isn't responding anymore. Had he already been discovered?

*-*-*-*

        "Here we are." The cage is put down and the cover removed. Rakurai sits up, blinking and looking about, eyes widening slightly. 

        "A Claw facility…" He breathes. As you're both jabbed out of the cave and toward the building across the courtyard.

        "That's right. Now let's get those quirks ripped out of you." The woman hums.

        "Nina… Where's Herk?" A big man questions, coming out of the nearby building. There's a pause as you observe the man.

        "Oh. He looks a lot like that fat headed bastard I just blasted." You chuckle, making them all look at you. Rakurai shifts, giving you an intense look.

        "Shut up." He whispers.

        "What did that bitch just say?" The man points at you.

        "C-Calm down Kirk." Nina says quickly.

        "I killed him. Your brother right? Man you two must've been such ugly kids." You snicker, receiving a chilling glare in response. The man moves toward you but six large black chains leave the holes in Rakurai's back.

         "Stay back." Rakurai warns him dangerously. A dart flies into his neck then and he clicks his tongue, chains knocking them all back with a flicker of lightning lashing out of them before Rakurai falls over.

         'Sorry Rakurai.' You think, facing Kirk as he gets back to his feet, glaring wildly at you. "What's wrong? Something happened?" You smirk. "Aww are you missing your brother?"

          "I'm going to pulverize you." He breathes, muscles bulging. 

          'So glad you're making this easy for me.' You let out a breath before grinning. "Uh oh. Tiny's mad." You sneer. "Hopefully you punch harder than him cause it's going to take quite a bit to kill me." He launches at you and you stay put letting his fist slam into your gut, sending you flying back, hitting the cage, feeling a few cracks from your ribs. Pain shooting up and down your body.

          "How was that? Not so noisy now are ya?" He rumbles, walking up.

          "Not enough." You cough, raising your chin to bare your teeth at him "Such a fucking disappointment like your brother." You chuckle. His foot slams into your side at that, sending you tumbling away again, the concrete scraping your skin all over. More ribs were broken, but it didn't heal like it was going to kill you. Blood comes to your mouth, and you open your mouth to let it pour out as you get to your feet again. Well, guess something got punctured there. Your whole body was aching now so it was hard to tell what.

          "You're a tough little bitch. But that's fine. I'm not done with ya!" He charges you fist connecting with your chest and punching you through a wall. People dressed in lab coats scatter away in a panic at that. More blood coming up your throat, some leaving your nose. It was getting hard to breathe now. "Sorry about that." Kirk waves at the workers, grabbing you and tossing you back into the courtyard. 

          Blood flows from your mouth as you force yourself up to your knees, facing him. Shallow breaths spewing out blood with each heave. 'This is it.' You think as he walks toward you.

         "Any last words?" He smirks, popping his knuckles.

         "Sorry, Tendo…" You whisper, bringing up the middle finger of your left hand in response.

         "Cheeky until the end. Dumb bitch." He raises his fists. 

         "Kirk!" Someone shouts from the hole as a flash of blue slices through his wrists, fists falling away as he brings down his arms, blood spewing out as someone flips over his head and lands between you two. Your eyes widen as blood splatters the titanium suit. A growl leaves Midnight before he plunges his blades into Kirk's chest, slashing sideways with both and ripping his chest open. 

          Kirk staggers back, shock evident on his face as his eyes become unfocused, falling back into a heap on the ground. You shiver, looking at Midnight's back as he straightens up. For the first time, you felt fear from his presence sensing an intense aura leaving him.

         "Kobalt. It's time." The computer voice hisses, making you stiffen. Midnight peers back at you as black water rushes from the hole in the wall, sweeping up a group of villains that had come rushing out from another building. "I knew something was off… Yet I didn't expect you to be here." Midnight turns to you and touches your cheek. Your injuries soon vanish along with the pain that had come with them.

          "Midnight…" You breathe. 

          "Let's get you out of these restraints so you can do what you want. I'm a bit busy right now, so it's probably best if you leave this area." He says, touching the mitt and making the lock click open. You blink as the mitt falls off. You weren't sure how you felt about this. "You don't need to die for Claw to be stopped." He stands up and turns away as a glowing water disperses the black water, turning it into soil. You blink at his words and look up at his back again. "I'll handle this. Just get out of here." 

           "Midnight. You're making a real mess. I thought you wanted to partner with us." Glow hums, spreading their arms. "Why are you getting in the way of our most expensive quirk?" 

           "Expensive quirk?... Don't overlook ___ so easily." Midnight rumbles suddenly charging Glow. You blink and get up at that, moving after him. Two villains raise their guns at him and you spin around him, right hand swiping out and bursting the guns. Midnight's blades burst at Glow but they swiftly dodge, sending glow water at Midnight but you burst it. Midnight puts an arm around your waist, suddenly leaping back as a cluster of spikes burst out of the ground between you two and Glow. 

           You blink, arm swiping out and destroying all of them. Midnight uses the cloud of particles to send out one of his blades again. It comes back with blood dripping off of it. The particles clear up as one of the other villain's collapses, blood pouring from their throat.

          "Where did you go Glow?" Midnight breathes as more villains pour out of the building.

         "So many…" You frown as spikes suddenly fly at you both. 

         "You scared?" Midnight teases. "Didn't you take on an army of ghosts?"

         "You need to stop spying. It's creepy how much you know Midnight." You huff, bursting the spikes.

         "But if I hadn't done that, we wouldn't be fighting together here now." He reminds you. You look at his eyeshield as he turns his head to you. 

         "... Don't slack now Midnight. We're surrounded." You smile. 

         "Right. We'll talk after we clear the yard." He rumbles suddenly turning and stepping behind you, slashing out with his blades, one shooting out and decapitating a villain while one of his other blades deflect some fiery arrows. Your right hand raises to disperse a glowing water blob that launches over the villains at you two.

          Blackwater crashes into another group to your left and lightning flashes out on your left as Rakurai wakes up, black chains swinging about wildly, letting off bolts of lightning. Midnight puts a blade in your left hand and you feel his back press against yours briefly before you rush forward, jumping up and kicking a villain in the face, spinning about to burst some rocks that flew at you. You land, right arm swiping out and removing the ground beneath a lot of them, making most stagger and others fall, giving Midnight the opening to jump over them, turning about as his blades zip about slashing the enemies in a horrifyingly quick fashion. You stay down, fearing for your head. 

           'He's… Scary… But really cool too.' You think and pause, feeling a tingle on your back and swiftly roll out of the way as a villain swings an axe down on the spot where you had been. He pauses, paling as you frown at him, touching the axe and making it burst. You jump to your feet, swinging your leg, foot meeting his face and making him fall back. 

           Someone rushes your side but a bluish blade slashes his eyes, making him cry out and hold his face. "You're slacking, hero!" Midnight calls. You pause and scowl, throwing your knife past him and into a villain's hand as they move to attack him.

          "Shut up. You'd be having a hard time if you weren't trying to kill them." You retort with a huff.

          "Ya can blast 'em ____ we won't tell no one." Death calls as you dodge another villain, punching them in the face before slamming them into the ground.

          "You stay outta this Death! I have morals!" You shout back.

          "Just feed those to the dogs and let's have fun!" Rakurai cheers from atop a burning heap of corpses.

          "See! Rakurai's having fun." Death points.

          "He's a mental case!  Don't ever compare me to someone that's addicted to electricity!" You snap. 

          "These bastards aren't even taking us seriously! Kill them Glow!" One snaps.

          "Okay!" Glow chimes, sending out a giant wave of glowing water, sweeping through some of the remaining villains and turning them to soil. You shiver, blinking at it. They really didn't care who got killed by it. You frown heavily and rush forward. Destroy it. Destroy it. Destroy them. 

            A tingle comes over your right arm and you stomp your foot down, swinging out broadly, bursting the wave completely. Glow freezes at that, starting to shake. "No! Stop that! I'm the strongest!" Glow snaps. Death and Midnight rush past you at the villain that is now having a tantrum Death's black water makes an orb around them, but the glow water turns it to soil as Midnight leaps into it. 

           You tense, moving forward as some concern for him grips your heart, but you stop as the soil falls away and Glow's head topples from their shoulders, body turning into soil as it falls. The surviving villains make their escape then and you relax, falling to your knees in relief. 

           "Heh, you looked worried about my boss for a moment there, you okay?" Rakurai chuckles, coming over and offering his hand as the other two start over. You blink up at him before frowning and standing, left hand coming across his face and making him stiffen while the other two freeze.

           "How dare you take advantage of my adoration for Oikawa." You huff. He shakes slightly, fists clenching as his eyes narrow, gritting his teeth. 

           "You're incredible. Please hit me again." He hisses out. You blink and take a big step back at that, making Midnight bust out laughing at the expression that you had on your face. Death straightens, starting to slow clap.

            "Well… That's one way to express yourself lad…" 

            "___'s face!" Midnight gasps still laughing. Rakurai steps toward you, eyes glittering slightly.

           "Please? One more?" He smiles.

           "No." You raise your eyebrows shaking your head.

           "I'll do it." A familiar voice hums just before Rakurai is punched in the nose. You blink and gasp in surprise as Oikawa holds up his fist with an enraged smile on his lips. "Saying such weird things to my kohai while sharing the same face as me. I should scar you." He snarls.

           "... Why is he out?" Rakurai backs up, looking to Midnight.

           "Well it was just me and Boss, so we gave him the key so he can help too." Death hums.

           "Worked out well too, there were a lot more of them than that. But Oikawa handled them." Midnight gives him a thumbs up.

           "Don't make it sound like I teamed up with you bastards!" Oikawa snaps. You hug him happily and he pauses, looking down at you.

           "I'm so glad you're safe." You whisper. He blinks and relaxes, kissing your forehead. 

           "Listen up Midnight, I contacted the hero headquarters. They'll be here soon. Take that warning as thanks for saving ___.” He tells the villain before pointing at Rakurai. "Watch your back." 

           "Fine fine." Rakurai sticks his tongue out at his doppelganger before going to join Death and Midnight. The leader pauses, looking back at you as the other two hurry away.

           "___. Do you feel better now?" Midnight asks, making you pause. You weren't sure, but you felt you knew what exactly he was asking.

           "Yeah. I do." You relax and give a smile. "Thanks for the save. You'd make a good hero for a monster." 

           "Eh. Too troublesome." He shrugs before moving after his companions. Oikawa sighs at that, turning and hugging you tightly. 

            "I'm sorry. I could've been the one to save you. But… When I saw you like that I just felt scared and lost…" He whispers. "You really were trying to get yourself killed weren't you?"

           "I didn't think help was coming. And I would rather die than let them get my quirk." You breathe. He frowns, squeezing you tighter to him.

          "I understand… But next time give me a bit more time to do something okay?" He rubs your back. "I don't ever want to lose you." 

          "Okay. I'll try…" You smile softly, tears pricking your eyes. He pulls back and cups your face. 

          "I have missed your cute face so much." He gasps.

          "Heh… I would say that… But…" You chuckle sheepishly. 

          "... I should've punched him again." Oikawa growls in annoyance. "And why does he get the blue eyes that I've always wanted!?" 

         "The blue is nice." You nod and he huffs in agreement. You smile and touch his cheeks. "But they still don't compare to yours when the light shines against them." You breathe. He blinks at you, cheeks starting to bloom with a blush. "So honestly. The original Oikawa- all of him. Is the best one." 

          "... I love you." He breathes smiling warmly. You chuckle at that and give him a kiss, pulling away as the sirens of police cars sound in the distance. "Oh. We probably should've ran…" 

         "But we didn't do anything wrong…" You frown.

         "Yeah but…" He looks around at the bodies. "We got a lot of explaining to do…"

         "... Ah well. I got Oikawa back so this will be fine."

         "... Stop making me blush. That's backwards."

         "Heh… I've missed you so much…"